RESOURCES
The resources on this page are designed to assist death investigators, medical examiners and coroners, and law enforcement in collecting sexual orientation and gender identity information for all violent deaths, including: suicide, homicide, deaths caused by law enforcement in line of duty, deaths caused by accidental (as well as intentional) firearm injury, deaths where intent cannot be determined, and deaths resulting from terrorism.
Publications
The article titled, Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Suicide and Other Violent Deaths: A Step Towards Identifying and Addressing LGBT Mortality Disparities, was published in the March 2015 edition of LGBT Health.
Haas, A. P., & Lane, A. (2015). Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Data in Suicide and Other Violent Deaths: A Step Towards Identifying and Addressing LGBT Mortality Disparities. LGBT Health, 2(1), 84–87. http://doi.org/10.1089/lgbt.2014.0083. Click the image to download a copy of the article.
The article titled, Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Information at Death, was published in the February 2019 edition of the American Journal of Public Health.
Haas, A. P., Lane, A., Blosnich, J.R., Butcher, B.A., & Mortali, M.G. (2019). Collecting Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Information at Death. American Journal of Public Health, 109, 84–87. http://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2018.304829. Click the image to download a copy of the article.
This article titled, Training Death Investigators to Identity Decedents' Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity, was published in the September 2021 edition of the American Journal of Forensic Medicine & Pathology.
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This is the first study about feasibility for development and delivery of training for medicolegal death investigators to gather decedents' sexual orientation and gender identity during investigations. Despite positive data about acceptability, long-term evaluation is necessary to establish training effectiveness.